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Layout For Sale

Click to enlargeThe James River Branch is for sale—or will be when it's done. It wasn't an easy decision to make, but I saw it as a means to create opportunities to explore new modeling options. For me, it's the journey and not the destination, so building a layout is more rewarding than owning one.

A word of caution to the casually curious: the price tag is hefty. Although it's negotiable, given how much I've invested in the layout, it can't go much lower than the $12,000 asking price. In addition to many thousands of dollars in material costs (there's over a thousand dollars in trees alone), it's going on four years in the making.

In addition to scale handlaid track, there are many unique, highly-detailed scratchbuilt details. Plus, all of the materials used are of the highest quality. Many of the buildings were bashed from multiple kits (as an example, the bank was made from five kits worth a total of over $150, excluding the kits purchased for an aborted first version).

Although small (15 by 36 inches), the layout has considerable eye-appeal, and is regarded by modeling peers as possibly one of the finest layouts in Z scale, so if you're serious, you'd be the proud owner of a one-of-a-kind treasure. If you're interested, please feel free to contact me at any time.

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I anticipate the layout will be completed by the end of 2010. It will be sold on an as-is basis, since there are no assurances that things will not break or fail at some future point (always a possibility with hand-crafted items); I will not be providing a repair service unless the buyer is ready to pay some steep shipping fees.

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